Wisconsin Society, Sons of the American Revolution, 1896, Part 4

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83. 3683.


HENRY PERRY DUTTON, Lumberman, Racine.


Son of Walter Barney Dutton.


Son of Achas Perry Dutton.


Son of Joseph Dutton.


Son of JOSEPH DUTTON : This last was born in 1731, and was a private in Captain Betts' company of the Second Con- necticut regiment, commanded by Colonel Zebulon Butler. He enlisted January 5, 1780, to serve until January 1, 1781. The records of the Adjutant General's office of Connecticut state that he was discharged six months after enlistment, but his name was borne on the roll of his company October 2, 1780.


Authorities : Connecticut Records; United States Pension Office.


78. 3678.


WALTER BARNEY DUTTON, Lumberman, Racine.


Son of Achas Perry Dutton.


Son of Joseph Dutton. Son of JOSEPH DUTTON.


See Henry Perry Dutton, 83, for the services of Joseph Dutton.


61. 3661.


JOHN JAY ELMENDORF, Minister, Kenosha. Son of Mary Ann (Lock) Elmendorf.


Daughter of .. (Kinnan) or (Keenan) Lock.


Daughter of PETER KINNAN, or KEENAN: This last was First Assistant Quartermaster in the New Jersey militia, was then promoted Captain and Quartermaster, and afterwards Colonel and Quartermaster General of the New Jersey militia.


Authorities : The New Jersey Revolutionary Records; Church and Courthouse Records of Kingston, New York.


The Rev. John Jay Elmendorf, S. T. D., was born in New York City, June 17, 1827. He graduated from Columbia Col-


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lege in 1845, and from the General Theological Seminary in 1849. He was then tutor in mathematics in Columbia College, and rector of the Episcopal Church of the Holy Innocents in New York. In 1867 he was elected Professor of Philosophy in Racine College, of which James De Koven was president. Upon the closing of the college department of that institution, in 1888, he removed to Kenosha to become chaplain of Kemper Hall. While thus engaged he was appointed an instructor in the Western Theological Seminary at Chicago in the Department of Moral Theology and Apologetics. In November, 1895, he resigned his position at Kenosha in order to devote his entire time to his professorship in Chicago. In that city he died February 16, 1896.


65. 3665.


ALEXANDER CHADBOURNE ESCHWEILER, Architect, Milwaukee.


Son of Hannalı Lincoln (Chadbourne) Eschweiler.


Daughter of Hannah (Lincoln) Chadbourne.


Daughter of Theodore Lincoln.


Son of MAJOR GENERAL BENJAMIN LINCOLN.


Authorities : Cottage Encyclopedia of History and Biog- raphy, and encyclopædias and histories in general.


109. 9459.


GRANT FITCH, Banker, Milwaukee.


Son of William Grant Fitch.


Son of Daniel Grant Fitch:


Son of Grant Fitch.


Son of HAYNES FITCH: This last enlisted in Captain Jabez Gregory's company of the Ninth regement of Connecticut militia, and was discharged December 29, 1777, after an honor- able service of two months.


Authority : Connecticut Revolutionary War Records.


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43. 3643.


JOHN GARDINER FLINT, Manufacturer, Milwaukee.


Son of John Gardiner Flint.


Son of JONAS FLINT: This last, while residing in Rut- land, Massachusetts, enlisted May 5, 1777, as a private in Cap- tain William Henry's company of Colonel Whitney's regiment, and was discharged July 5, 1777. He again enlisted August 29, 1777, as a private in Captain Ralph Earll's company of Colonel Danforth Keyes' regiment, and was discharged January 3, 1778. He died in St. Johnsbury, Vermont, July 20, 1849, aged 89 years.


Authorities : Massachusetts Revolutionary War Records ; Cochrane's History of the Town of Antrim, New Hampshire.


Also :


Son of Sarah (Gregg) Flint.


Daughter of ALEXANDER GREGG: This last was Ensign in Captain Peter Clark's company of Colonel Daniel Moore's regiment of volunteers, which marched from Lyndeborough in New Hampshire, in September, 1777, and joined the Northern Continental Army at Saratoga. Alexander Gregg's name is also on the pay roll of Captain Amos Gage's company of volunteers, which marched from Pelham, New Hampshire, September 29, 1777, to join the same army. He was present at the battles against Burgoyne. Prior to both these services Alexander Gregg had belonged to the first military company of Windham, New Hampshire, his name appearing on its roll July 8, 1775. His · name is also signed to the " Association List," issued April 12, 1776. He was born in Londonderry, New Hampshire, Feb- ruary 9, 1755, and died in Antrim, April 1, 1830.


John Gardiner Flint was born in Windsor, New Hampshire, February 16, 1829. He removed to Milwaukee in 1858, and started, with his brother, Wyman Flint, of Bellows Falls, Ver- mont, the coffee and spice mills of W. and J. G. Flint, on Grand avenue, opposite the present Plankinton House. The business having greatly prospered it was removed to the present


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site, Nos. 110-116 West Water street. Mr. Flint was traveling in Mexico, visiting coffee plantations, in February and March, 1896, and died in Chihuahua, March 24, 1896.


42. 3642.


WYMAN KNEELAND FLINT, Manufacturer, Milwaukee.


Son of John Gardiner Flint. Son of John Gardiner Flint. Son of JONAS FLINT. Also :


Son of John Gardiner Flint.


Son of Sarah (Gregg) Flint.


Daughter of ALEXANDER GREGG.


See John Gardiner Flint, 43, for the services of Jonas Flint and Alexander Gregg.


Also :


Son of Frances (Kneeland) Flint.


Daughter of Ellen Clarinda (Martin) Kneeland.


Daughter of Wait Martin.


Son of NATHAN MARTIN: This last was a private in Captain Simeon Smith's company of Colonel Philip B. Bradley's Connecticut battalion. He enlisted August 14, 1776, and was discharged December 28, 1776. Later, on April 29, 1781, he became a private in Captain James Dana's company of General Waterbury's Connecticut brigade. He was born July 30, 1734, in Woodbury, Connecticut, and died there in 1794.


Authority : Connecticut Revolutionary War Archives. Also:


Son of Frances (Kneeland) Flint.


Daughter of Moses Kneeland.


Son of David Kneeland.


Son of David Kneeland.


Son of ISAAC KNEELAND: This last, who was born in Hebron, Connecticut, May 15, 1716, marched from the town of Chatham, Connecticut, as "clerk for the relief of Boston, in the Lexington alarm, April, 1775." He served five days.



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Authorities : Connecticut Revolutionary .War Archives; Records of Hebron and of Colchester, Connecticut.


Also :


Son of Frances (Kneeland) Flint.


Daughter of Moses Kneeland.


Son of Statira (Williams) Kneeland.


Daughter of THOMAS WILLIAMS: This last, while a resident of East Haddam, Conneticut, enlisted as a private in Captain Eliphalet Holmes' company in the First regiment, Connecticut line. He enlisted March 20, 1777, and was dis- charged March 20, 1780. Before this service he was a private in Captain Holmes' East Haddam minute men in May, 1776. As a pensioner he was called Lieutenant. He was born in East Haddam, Connecticut, January 25, 1728, and died in Westchester, Connecticut, February 25, 1806.


Authority : Connecticut Revolutionary War Archives. Also :


Son of Frances (Kneeland) Flint.


Daughter of Ellen Clarinda (Martin) Kneeland.


Daughter of Clarinda (Pierson) Martin.


Daughter of Sarah (Watrous) Pierson.


Daughter of SAMUEL WATROUS: This last, born in Saybrook, Connecticut, in 1730, was Ensign of the Third com- pany of the alarm list in the Fourteenth regiment of Connecticut, as appears by the records of the Town Clerk of Deep River.


Also:


Son of Frances (Knceland) Flint.


Daughter of Ellen Clarinda (Martin) Kneeland.


Daughter of Clarinda (Pierson) Martin.


Daughter of Joseph Pierson.


Son of EPHRAIM PIERSON: This last was a private in Captain Simmons' East Windsor, Connecticut, company of Colonel Wolcott's regiment, and served at Boston in January, February and March, 1776.


Authorities: Stiles' History of Windsor; Connecticut Revo- lutionary Records.


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3644.


44.


EDWARD WHEELER FROST, Lawyer, Milwaukee.


Son of Phebe (Wheeler) Frost.


Daughter of Jonathan Edwards Wheeler.


Son of Anthony Wheeler.


Son of NOAH WHEELER: This last born June 6, 1744, was on October 17, 1775, commissioned Ensign in Company Four, Captain Robert Freeman, of the Sixth regiment, Colonel David Sutherland, of Dutchess County, New York, militia. On March 20, 1778, he was promoted to be First Lieutenant of Captain Elijah Smith's Company of the same regiment, and on June 25, 1778, to be Captain, in place of said Captain Smith, resigned. He was noticed for bravery in battle near Fort Independence, New York.


Authorities : Reed's Early History of Amenia, New York ; New York Colonial Documents, XV .; Minutes of the Council of Appointment, in manuscript.


36. 3636.


OLIVER CLYDE FULLER, Banker and Broker, Milwaukee. Son of Martha Caroline (Wyly) Fuller.


Daughter of Oliver Cromwell Wyly.


Son of Sarah Hawkins (Clark) Wyly.


Daughter of Elizabeth (Sevier) Clark.


Daughter of JOHN SEVIER: Brigadier General; Governor of the short-lived State of Franklin; first Governor of Tennessee; Member of Congress, etc. The conspicuous part played by Governor Sevier during the Revolutionary War is so fully recorded in history that the details of his valuable services to his country are omitted here.


Authorities : Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biogra- phy; Draper's King's Mountain and its Heroes; Gilmour's Rear Guard of the Revolution; Gilmore's John Sevier as a Common- wealth Builder.


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:


Also :


Son of Martha Caroline (Wyly) Fuller.


Daughter of Oliver Cromwell Wyly.


Son of General James Rutherford Wyly.


Son of Jemima (Cleveland) Wyly.


Daughter of BENJAMIN CLEVELAND : This last, born on the Bull Run, in Prince William County, Virginia, May 26, 1738, removed about 1769 to Rowan County, North Carolina.


On September 1, 1775, he was appointed to enlist in the Second regiment of North Carolina, under the command of Colonel Robert Howe. He was promoted to Captain the fol- lowing year, and, with a party of volunteer riflemen, marched to meet the Highland Tories of the Wake Forest region in Feb- ruary, 1776, and in the autumn led his company in General Rutherford's campaign against the Cherokees. In 1777 he served at Carter's Fort and the Long Island of Holston in East Tennessee. In March, 1778, largely through his influence, the County of Wilkes was formed out of the County of Surry. Cleveland was placed at the head of the Commission of Jus- tices and was made Colonel of the militia. During the sum- mer of 1778 he was constantly employed in suppressing and driving the Tories out of the country, and was called a " Terror to the Tories." Then followed the King's Mountain campaign, " the greatest service of his life," in honor of which service a monument to his memory has been erected in Tennessee. In 1781 Colonel Cleveland served for a time under General Greene. After the close of the war he removed to the western · border of South Carolina, and served many years as Judge of the Court of Old Pendleton County. He died in October, 1806.


Authorities : Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biogra- phy; Draper's King's Mountain and Its Heroes; Gilmour's Rear Guard of the Revolution.


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45.


3645. ALFRED KINGSLEY GLOVER, Clergyman, Wells, Minne- sota.


Son of Lieutenant Alfred R. Glover, U. S. A.


Son of William Glover.


Son of SAMUEL KINGSLEY GLOVER, M. D .: This last left his studies at Harvard and became a surgeon in the American Navy. After 1778 he was transferred to land service, both field and stationary hospital, and continued these duties until the close of the war. He was born in Milton, Massachu- setts, June 28, 1753, and died there July 1, 1839.


Authorities : United States Pension Office ; Glover Memo- rials and Genealogy.


72. 3672.


CHARLES NOBLE GREGORY, Professor of Law and Asso-


ciate Dean, College of Law, University of Wisconsin, Madison.


Son of Charlotte Caroline (Camp) Gregory.


Daughter of Abigail (Whittlesey) Camp.


Daughter of ASAPH WHITTLESEY: This last, born May 12, 1753, was Captain of Connecticut soldiers. He was at Wyoming, Pennsylvania, in 1778, and marched from the stock- ade at the head of his company on July 3, 1778, against the British force of Tories and Indians under Butler and Brandt. He was never seen alive again, but the tradition is that he was tomahawked and scalped, crept into the woods and died. His name is inscribed upon the monument at Wyoming, to com- memorate the massacre. His daughter, said Abigail, being an infant, was saved by being carried on a raft down the Susque- hanna, and after a year was restored to her mother's arms.


Authorities : Kulp's Families of Wyoming Valley ; Con- necticut War Records; Genealogy of the Wittlesey family.


Also :


Son of Jared Comstock Gregory.


Son of Mille (Maxwell) Gregory.


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Daughter of JAMES MAXWELL : This. last was a mem- ber of General Arnold's troops in his expedition against Can- ada. Upon the retreat the body was greatly reduced by famine. James Maxwell's band finally killed and ate two dogs which fol- lowed the camp, his portion being an ear. James Maxwell was born in Massachusetts, September 2, 1764, and died in 1848.


Authorities : Connecticut War Records ; Nathan Ely and his Descendants.


52. 3652.


ARTHUR TENNEY HOLBROOK, Physician, Milwaukee.


Son of Arthur Holbrook.


Son of Edwin Almus Holbrook.


Son of Minerva (Bartholomew) Holbrook.


Daughter of ISAAC BARTHOLOMEW: This last, when nineteen years of age, December 23, 1780, enlisted as a private in Colonel Sheldon's dragoons, from Farmington, Connecticut. He was made a Corporal in 1782, and served until his regiment was disbanded in June, 1783. He was born in Farmington, June 2, 1761, and died in Waddington, New York, February II, 1841.


Authorities : Connecticut War Records; Records of the Bar- tholomew Family, by George W. Bartholomew, Jr., 1885.


55. 3655.


GEORGE CLARK JONES, Lawyer, Appleton.


Son of William Clark Jones.


Son of WILLIAM JONES: This last, when sixteen years of age, enlisted at Horse Neck, near Saybrook, Connecticut, his father being present and consenting to the enlistment. This was about 1778. After his period of enlistment expired he, on Feburary 15, 1781, at Killingsworth, Connecticut, re-enlisted for the war. This was as a private in Captain Ephraim Chamber- lain's company of Colonel Heman Swift's Connecticut regi- ment. He was afterwards transferred to Captain Hopkins'


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company of light infantry. He was discharged at West Point, January 4, 1784. He died in Rutland County, Vermont, in 1862 or 1863, aged about one hundred years.


Authorities: United States Pension Office; Information from Applicant's father.


66. 3666.


FRANCIS BOWLER KEENE, Journalist, Milwaukee.


Son of Susan Elizabeth (Bowler) Keene.


Daughter of Daniel Bucklin Bowler.


Son of Metcalf Bowler.


Son of METCALF BOWLER: This last was a member of the Stamp Act Congress (1765) ; was Speaker of the House of Representatives of Rhode Island, from October, 1767, to November, 1776, and Judge of the Supreme Court of Rhode Island, from May, 1768, to February, 1777. In one of these official capacities he signed Continental paper currency. Judge Bowler was a close friend of Lafayette, whose Aide, Vicompte Langfroy de Lisle, married Bathsheba, daughter of Judge Bowler. The epitaph upon his tombstone in St. John's church- yard, Providence, thus reads : "Sacred to the memory of the Hon. Metcalf Bowler, Esq., who resigned his soul to God on 19th Sept., 1789, in the 63rd year of his age. Having been repeatedly elected to several of the most important offices in this state, shows the confidence of the public in his ability and patriotism, and is the best eulogium of his character. He served as Judge of the Superior Courts, was 19 [should read 9] years Speaker of the lower House of Assembly, and was a member of the First Congress in 1765, the duties of which . station he discharged with honor and ability."


Francis B. Keene is the son of the Rev. David Keene, D. D., an early settler, and an influential and honored citizen, of Milwaukee.


Authorities : Rhode Island Manual; Updike's History of the Narragansett Church.


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86.


3686.


LEAVENWORTH KERSHAW, Lawyer, Kenosha.


Son of Mary Elizabeth (Leavenworth) Kershaw.


Daughter of Jesse Henry Leavenworth.


Son of Henry Leavenworth.


Son of JESSE LEAVENWORTH: This last was Lieu- tenant of the Second company Governor's Foot Guards, from New Haven, Connecticut, which was organized March 2, 1775, and reported on the Lexington alarm. He was also First Lieutenant of the New Haven company, Captain David Woos- ter, of the First Connecticut regiment, which was enlisted April and May, 1775, on the first call for troops by the legislature.


Authority : Connecticut Men of the Revolutionary War.


8. 3608.


BYRON HECTOR KILBOURNE, Physician, Hawkhurst, North Lake.


Son of Byron Kilbourne.


Son of James Kilbourne.


Son of JOSIAH KILBOURNE : This last was a member of the Connecticut troops. He was born in 1731, and lived in New Britain, Connecticut.


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3700.


WILLIAM DONALDSON KIMBALL, Architect, Milwaukee. Son of Julius Henry Kimball. Son of George Kimball. Son of George Kimball.


Son of GEORGE KIMBALL: This last was born in Bradford, Massachusetts, February 29, 1724, and went to Lun- enburg previous to June, 1748. He died in 1790. He was on the school committee for three years, was town treasurer for seven years, was selectman for eight years, was town clerk for six years, was Captain in the Revolution. He went out on the


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Lexington alarm fcr twelve days. He was a representative in the Continental Congress in 1774 and 1779. He was a repre- sentative in the General Court (the Massachusetts legislature) in 1777 and 1780. He was a member of the committee to draw up resolutions for the instruction of the town's representatives in regard to the encroachments of the Crown. Also on the Commit- tee on Tea when the town resolved to purchase all the tea in town and store it, and not allow an ounce to be used, but to con- sider every person who used tea an enemy and traitor. This was in 1774.


Authority : Genealogy of the Kimball Family by S. P. Sharples, State Assayer of Massachusetts.


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3602.


CHARLES KING, Army Officer, Milwaukee.


Son of Rufus King. Son of Charles King.


Son of RUFUS KING: This last, as Aide-de-Camp to General Sullivan in 1778, accompanied him on his expedition to Rhode Island and subsequently received honorable discharge. He was appointed to the General Court of Massachusetts in 1783, rendering valuable service to the Continental Congress in raising means for the support of the army and the government. He was a delegate from Massachusetts to the convention which framed the Constitution of the United States, and as such dele- gate signed that instrument. He was born in Scarborough, Maine, March 24, 1755, and died in New York city, April 29, 1827.


Authorities : Appleton's Encyclopædia of American Biog- raphy ; Family Bible and Family Records.


Also : Son of Rufus King.


Son of Charles King.


Son of Mary (Alsop) King.


Daughter of JOHN ALSOP: This last was a Major in the Revolutionary War.


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87. 3687.


JAMES KNEELAND, Milwaukee.


Son of David Kneeland. Son of David Kneeland. Son of ISAAC KNEELAND.


Also: Son of Catherine (Pierson) Kneeland.


Daughter of Sarah (Watrous) Pierson.


Daughter of SAMUEL WATROUS.


Also:


Son of Catherine (Pierson) Kneeland.


Daughter of Joseph Pierson. Son of EPHRAIM PIERSON.


See Wyman Kneeland Flint, 42, for the services of Isaac Kneeland, Samuel Watrous and Ephraim Pierson.


88. 3688.


NORMAN LITTLE KNEELAND, Capitalist, Milwaukee.


Son of Sylvester Williams Kneeland. Son of David Kneeland. Son of David Kneeland. Son of ISAAC KNEELAND.


Also:


Son of Sarah (Hanna) Kneeland. Daughter of Catherine (Pierson) Hanna. Daughter of Sarah (Watrous) Pierson. Daughter of SAMUEL WATROUS.


Also: Son of Sarah (Hanna) Kneeland. Daughter of Catherine (Pierson) Hanna. Daughter of Joseph Pierson. Son of EPHRAIM PIERSON.


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Also: 3


Son of Sylvester Williams Kneeland.


Son of Statira (Williams) Kneeland.


Daughter of THOMAS WILLIAMS.


See Wyman Kneeland Flint, 42, for the services of Isaac Kneeland, Samuel Watrous, Ephraim Pierson and Thomas Williams.


74. 3674.


ALLEN PERRY LOVEJOY, Lumberman, Janesville.


Son of Nathan Lovejoy.


Son of JOHN LOVEJOY.


Son of HEZEKIAH LOVEJOY: This last was Lieuten- ant in the company of Colonel Moses Nichols, in the brigade of General William Whipple. This brigade was New Hampshire militia men sent to Rhode Island in the summer of 1778 to assist in an attack upon the British forces stationed there. Lieutenant Lovejoy was a resident of Amherst, New Hamp- shire. In September, 1779, Captain Hezekiah Lovejoy enlisted for six months in the garrison at Portsmouth. He was several times appointed on a committee to procure soldiers and sup- plies for the Continental Army, as is shown by an order in the office of the secretary of state of New Hampshire, of which the following is a copy :


STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, April 2, 1779.


To Nicholas Gilman, Esq., R. G .:


Pursuant to a vote of Council and Assembly, pay Josiah Crosby and Heze- kiah Lovejoy twenty-five pounds twelve shillings for camp utensils for Gen. Stark's brigade.


£25 12S.


M. WEARE, Presid't.


Hezekiah Lovejoy was born in Andover, Massachusetts, October 29, 1729, and died in Amherst, April 6, 1793.


The above named John Lovejoy was a member of the com- pany of Captain Peabody, which, with another company, both


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commanded by Major Abiel Abbott, marched, June 30, 1777, from Wilton, New Hampshire, to the defense of Ticonderoga upon the attack of Burgoyne.


Authority : History of Amherst, New Hamsphire.


40. 3640.


JOHN WILLIAM PETERSON LOMBARD, Banker, Mil- waukee.


Son of Lewis Lombard.


Son of Hannah (Snow) Lombard.


Daughter of DAVID SNOW: This last, who was born in Truro, Massachusetts, in 1732, was a private in Captain Mat- thias Tobey's company of Colonel Aaron Willard's regiment, in January, 1777. His residence was Truro, and his services were to and at Ticonderoga. On September 16, 1777, he was commissioned as First Lieutenant of the Barnstable County regiment of Massachusetts militia. Later, while at home at Truro, accompanied by his son David, a lad of 15 years, he was fishing in his boat off Truro coast. Both he and his son were taken prisoners of war by an English privateer known as the Shaving Mill. The British, being especially desirous of destroying the Cape Cod fisheries, treated all engaged in this occupation as belligerents. David Snow, with his son, was carried to Halifax, and thence to Old Mill prison, Plymouth, England. David Snow planned an escape from the prison and, proposing a great frolic and dance among the prisoners to drown the noise, succeeded during the dance in filing off the prison bars and escaped with his son and thirty-four other prisoners. They marched to Plymouth Harbor and capturing a scow put to sea. They finally captured a small vessel in which they sailed to France, where they sold their vessel. From there they returned to America, where they arrived just after the declaration of peace.


Authorities : Year Book, Illinois Society of the Sons of American Revolution for 1896; Rich's History of Truro, Boston, 1883.


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3646.


FRANCIS HENRY LYMAN, Merchant, Kenosha.


Son of Frederick William Lyman.


Son of Thomas Lyman.


Son of TIMOTHY LYMAN: This last was a private in Captain Robert Webster's company of General Seth Pomeroy's regiment, which, on the Lexington alarm of April 19, 1775, marched two days later from Chesterfield, Massachusetts. The length of this service was fourteen days. General Pomeroy was an uncle of Timothy Lyman. Timothy Lyman enlisted August 17, 1777, as a sergeant in Captain Christopher Bannister's company of Colonel John Dickinson's regiment, and marched for the reinforcement of the army at Bennington. He again enlisted, September 20, 1777, as a sergeant, in Captain Bannister's com- pany in Colonel Ezra May's regiment, and was discharged October 14, 1777. During this enlistment he served at Still- water and Saratoga. He was commissioned, July 6, 1778, as a Lieutenant in Colonel Israel Chapin's Second Hampshire County regiment of Massachusetts militia. He again enlisted, Octo- ber 14, 1779, and was a Lieutenant in Captain Joseph Clap's company of Colonel Israel Chapin's regiment, and was dis- charged November 21, 1779. He was born in Northampton, Massachusetts, July 25, 1745, and died in Goshen, same state, February 23, 1818.


Authority : Massachusetts Revolutionary War Archives, Vols. XIII, XVII, XVIII and XXVIII; Lieutenant's commis- sion of Timothy Lyman, in good preservation, owned by Francis Henry Lyman.


85. 3685.


FREDERICK WILLIAM LYMAN, Merchant, Kenosha. Son of Thomas Lyman.


Son of TIMOTHY LYMAN.


See Francis Henry Lyman, 46, for the services of Timothy Lyman.


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73. 3673.


ROBERT ALLEN MARR, Bank Clerk, Kenosha. Son of Frances Kimball (Wheeler) Marr.


Daughter of William Henry Harrison Wheeler.


. Son of Martha (Virgin) Wheeler.


Daughter of Jonathan Virgin.


Son of EBENEZER VIRGIN: This last, born May 25, 1735, was commissioned February 26, 1774, as a Lieutenant in the Second company of the Sixth regiment of New Hampshire militia.


Authority : Bouton's History of Concord, 1725-1853.


97. 3697.


GEORGE BYRON MERRICK, Madison.


Son of Laban Harriman Merrick.


Son of Joseph Merrick.


Son of JOSEPH MERRICK: This last enlisted with rank of Sergeant, September 30, 1776, in Captain Joseph Ilsley's company of Colonel Cogswell's regiment of Massachusetts militia, and was discharged November 16, 1776. He was born in Methuen, Massachusetts, December 30, 1749, and died in Newbury, same state, in 1828.




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